Modernismo Research Paper

Modernismo was a literary movement that first appeared at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. It was Spanish-American and best typified by Rubén Darío, who was a Nicaraguan poet. Modernismo began in the Latin American continent in the late 1800s and later spread to Spain, all the way in Europe, in the beginning of the 20th century. It had many influences such as the Parnassian school of poets, various traits of classical Spanish poetry, as well as French symbolism. It was also influenced by American poets like Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe.

People who practiced modernism preferred to leave their poems in exotic plans, such as where exhibitionists, swans, and princesses resided, as well as in royal places. They wanted to reduce the amount of materialism and unrefined culture society was in. Modernismo allowed a new unalloyed beauty of ideas to surface, along

They also used venturesome metaphors, which they learned and implemented from the French.

The modernism movement had many, many repercussions especially in politics and the economy because of the abrupt and sudden intellectual ideas it introduced for the first time. Many writers and poets became progressively perturbed with the contemplation of the economic, social, and political problems of the changing continent, and the world globally. Modernismo was an influence to new movements, such as ultraismo.

Modernismo was first started as a reaction to the European style of realism and naturalism. The writers and poets intended to indoctrinate the general public about the political and social problems that society had gotten itself into, putting less of an emphasis on all the artistic aspects that had been introduced. They wanted to promote rationalism, critical thinking, and collective beliefs, rather than superstitions and incorrect